Hi rstroud,
Does the created Style lose all its formatting after being name changed or do the paragraphs set to that original paragraph style change to the Normal paragraph style? I have noticed that when a paragraph style has a name change those paragraphs of that style not selected will change to the based on paragraph style as if that original name paragraph style had been deleted. If all the original name paragraph style paragraphs are selected and then after changing the name that is applied on exit all will be as you set and named.
To be more specific: What happens is that the created Style still exists, now under a new name. You can look at the code for it, and the code is there. You can even apply the Style to any paragraph, and it will work.
But the paragraphs that had the same code, under the old name, revert to the formatting associated with Normal.
It is always difficult to explain these things.
Just open a new document and create one new Style, based on Normal. Use this new Style on a paragraph. It will work fine.
But now change the name of the newly created Style. Your paragraph will lose its formatting and revert to Normal format.
The new Style that you created and renamed can still be used, but it has to be applied again to every paragraph to which it was attached.
Maybe this has always been Atlantis behavior, but I doubt it. I have done name changes a zillion times, and I do not think that they were all with LibreOffice Writer, which I also use.
Hi rstroud,
I have noticed that exact same behavior for years. My thought is that when the name is changed the software behaves like all the paragraph styles with the old name had that style deleted instead of applying the new name to them. When a paragraph style is just deleted all the paragraphs with that style change to the style it is based on.
